On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:05:49PM +0200, Markus Hennecke wrote:
> Jacob Meuser schrieb:
> >On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:32:34PM +0200, Markus Hennecke wrote:
> >>On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Deanna Phillips wrote:
> >>
> >>>This diff, from brad@, updates gnash to 0.8.2. So far, it's
> >>>only been tested on i386.
> >>Seems to be working fine on amd64.
> >
> >looks good on amd64 and i386 here too.
> >
> > This is another port for which the
> >>previous version needs to be uninstalled to compile. This really becomes
> >>a PITA.
> >
> >well, gnash has no dependents, and can you actually use gnash and compile
> >it at the same time? gnash is way to cpu hungry to do that on any of
> >my machines.
>
> Of course you are right. However, currently I am no longer building
> updated ports by hand but via a script which analyzes the output from
> ${PORTSDIR}/infrastructure/build/out-of-date. So these ports that need a
> special handling interfere with that practice... I am lazy and it is
> really nice to get the system up to date via a single command.
your script could uninstall all the old stuff (out-of-date tells you when
a depenency is out of date, right?) then 'make SUBDIR=$list install'
or something along those lines.
> The cpu hunger of gnash does not interfere much with the compilation as
> soon as there is more than one cpu core available. It looks like more
> and more machines out there will be at least dual cores on the
> mainstream archs i386 and amd64.
>
> Kind regards,
> Markus
>
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